Functional Analyst, Finance Technology

This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs

Collaborate with Senior Functional Analyst, Product Owner, Business Partners, Product Team, Engineering, and Cross Functional Teams (Finance, Accounting, FP&A, External Reporting, Tax), to design, optimize, and scale finance systems and solutions. Serve as a partner to business teams in translating business needs into platform capabilities and ensure finance systems are maintained to meet business requirements.

• Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
• Provides functional design support for finance technology solutions across transactional accounting, finance, tax, FP&A, and reporting.
• Convert business requirements into product configuration requirements, maintain functional and technical documentation, including user stories, and other Agile artifacts.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure solutions are scalable and compliant with Sysco’s standards and policies.
• Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework; promotes only quality-tested code and does it frequently
• Provides subject matter expertise support for issue resolution, root‑cause analysis, and ensure continues optimization and automation with AI/ML solutions.
• Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, computer science, or equivalent for the specific role’s responsibilities

• 3-5 years of experience in finance, financial systems technology supporting finance functions.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise finance systems (Workday, Microsoft BI, SAP BPC, Microsoft D365)
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to understand processes around consolidations, planning, finance analytics, and external and internal reporting.
• Proven ability to write clear functional requirements and collaborate with engineering teams
• Strong understanding of data modeling and integration across finance platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement are required across global teams.

• Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban & other agile frameworks
• Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer‑focus & results‑orientation
• Knowledge of automation tools, AI‑enabled finance solutions.
• Ability to excel in a fast‑paced agile environment, adapt to shifting urgencies, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines